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Emily Woof
The Lightning Tree
United Kingdom circa the 1980s——Ursula and Jerry find themselves surrounded by hip hairdos and dominating parents. When both escape to separate places, they keep in touch through letters that are deep, political, and full of irony——but Jerry harbors a secret uncertainty. -
Robert Wilson
Stealing People
In the latest entry in Robert Wilson’s acclaimed Charlie Boxer series, a convincing web of international intrigue unravels in a world where heroism may breed vice and virtue is an accidental byproduct of crime. -
Massimo Carlotto
For All the Gold in the World
In Northeast Italy, Marco Buratti, alias "the Aligator," is investigating a botched robbery that ended in a brutal murder. His client is just twelve years old, the son of a victim. Realizing that the truth is cloaked, twisted, and shocking, the Alligator finds himself mixed up in a maze of contraband... -
Joan London
The Golden Age
The Golden Age is an immensely satisfying and generous-hearted story about displacement, recovery, resilience, and love. -
Maurizio de Giovanni
Darkness for the Bastards of Pizzofalcone
A kidnapped child and the burglary of a high-class apartment: two crimes that seem to have no connection at all until Inspector Lojacono, known as "The Chinaman," starts to investigate. -
Jane Gardam
Bilgewater
Motherless and 16, Marigold is the headmaster's daughter at a private all-boys school, where she hurdles headlong out of her own head and into the seething cauldron of adolescence: impossible crushes, intimidating girls, and a fair share of awkwardness. -
Alina Bronsky
Baba Dunja's Last Love
Radiation level warnings be damned! Baba Dunja is going home, to her town right near Chernobyl. She and her motley crew of neighbors create an idyllic post-meltdown settlement——until a dangerous stranger shows up and annihilation once again looms. -
Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Street Kids
Originally heavily censored, criticized by professional critics, and lambasted by much of the general public upon its publication, The Street Kids ' undeniable force led to it become universally acknowledged as a masterpiece by Italy's preeminent late-20th Century author and intellectual, Pier Paolo... -
Pier Paolo Pasolini
The Street Kids
Originally heavily censored, criticized by professional critics, and lambasted by much of the general public upon its publication, The Street Kids ' undeniable force led to it become universally acknowledged as a masterpiece by Italy's preeminent late-20th Century author and intellectual, Pier Paolo... -
Joe Flanagan
Lesser Evils
In a reimagined 1957 Cape Cod, the mystifying murder of a local child brings us into a world of intrigue that culminates in a conclusion both surprising and deeply moving.